I think it is a cool touch that I add his mouth opening just a little to see his front teeth before he opens up all the way because it is a hint to what is to come next. Also when people talk their mouths open a little before it opens all the way. Theres no way for your mouth to be wide open without it being a little open first.
It was tedious to make him constantly bop up and down. I chose to make him do it at one constant speed and not too much on the beat with mom and ma because this shows how clueless he can be. He is just bouncing up and down because he has this "need" to. He doesn't even realise that he's not doing it with the beat. I think this just fits David perfectly. I put so much time into this project and I hope everyone likes it because I worked really hard.
The constant speed is because there is no reason for him to bounce faster especially if he is not on the beat to mom. He never speeds up his dialogue the dialogue is one constant speed too. The bouncing is also his way of communication because he doesn't have any arms to communicate that way, so the bouncing also represents his energy and his need for his mom. His need to get attention (or at least he thinks he needs it; remember he is clueless and theres nothing in his mind really thats why his head is see through. So does he really know what he needs?)
Since he is only bouncing up and down and his head is directly in the middle there is no weight shift to accommodate his head because his head won't make him lean to one side or the other since it is centered in the middle.
I love his stance with his feet because it looks like he could do something else besides bounce, but he just continues to bounce. It's as if he can;t make up his mind whether to continue bouncing or do something else.
As you may have noticed the mom is not present. I left it up to the viewers to decide where the mom is or if the mom is even near him because David has the personality of calling a mom that is not there.
As far as technical goes I made things that needed to be symbols symbols and things that needed to be drawing drawings. What needed to be drawings were the legs and some other small things. Hopefully, everything is the way it needs to be for technical so that theres no problems with that. I remember before you said that drawing come with consequences good and bad (tweens), so I chose what I believe is a good solution between my symbols and drawings. I also have everything on a separate layer to easily get to one symbol/drawing without running into one another. I know exactly where everything is so that I wouldn't be be struggling trying to find out where the teeth or lips or head is .
The top of the head gets darker and that is because i decided to make a last minute change in some of the frames, but it is barely noticeable. You might not have even noticed if I didn't write this. (if you didn't notice ignore this comment ha-ha) The reasoning for this change is because I wanted to make those ones drawings and not symbols because I was going to do something with his head at that point, but decided not to.
I learned a lot in this class and there were so many challenges I had to face, but I would never change this experience for the world. I again chose to use flash because I wanted to challenge my self. I know on the last project since I used flash I didn't get the best grade I could have gotten if I used aftereffects, but I think now my flash skills have gotten better by challenging myself and not going the easy route.
